vii, 264 pages ; 23 cm

"Based on papers presented at the conference 'Integrating Anthropological Approaches in Epidemiological and Prevention Research on Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS: Current Status and Future Prospects, ' held September 24-25, 1996, in Washington D.C."--Title page verso

Shipping list no.: 2000-0015-P

"Printed September 1999"--Page ii

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction: frontiers in AIDS and drug abuse prevention research / Merrill Singer, Patricia Loomis Marshall, and Michael C. Clatts -- Toward a critical biocultural model of drug use and health risk / Merrill Singer -- To theorize or not to theorize: anthropological research in drugs and aids / J. Bryan Page and Robert T. Trotter II -- Interdisciplinary research on the transmission of blood-borne pathogens in drug injection practices: applications of ethnography in epidemiology and public health / Michael C. Clatts, Robert Heimer, Jo L. Sotheran, and Lloyd A. Goldsamt -- Complexities in the lives of female drug uses in the AIDS era / Claire E. Sterk -- Researching risk: prevention research on substance abuse, sexual behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Asia and Australia / Lenore Manderson -- Neighborhood violence in New York City and indigenous attempts to contain it / Ric Curtis and Ansley Hamid -- Access and adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in injection drug uses: a social course perspective / Norma C. Ware and Toni Tugenberg -- Ethics, ethnography, drug use, and AIDS / Merrill Singer [and others] -- An approach to ethical decision making in ethnographic research on HIV prevention and drug use / Patricia Loomis Marshall -- The ethnography of street drug use before AIDS: a historical review / Merrill Singer

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